id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
2515,[MSVC] ambiguous symbol type_info in boost/python tests,Farid Zaripov <faridz@…>,Dave Abrahams,"The most of the boost/python tests are failed to compile on MSVC with Apache stdcxx library.

[http://tinyurl.com/6hdez7 example 1]
[http://tinyurl.com/5wywqb example 2]

The reason is that <eh.h> header contains declaration of the:

{{{
int _is_exception_typeof(const type_info &, _EXCEPTION_POINTERS *) ;
}}}

<eh.h> header is included in libs/python/test/module_tail.cpp file. The module_tail.cpp is included in other pythons tests at the end of file after introducing boost::python symbols in global namespace.

That tests are compiled successfully on MSVC without stdcxx due to <eh.h> implicitly included thus <exception> header (before ""using namespace boost::python;"" directive). But any of the stdcxx headers are not including the <eh.h> (see [http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1599 ticket 1599]).

The possible solution is explicitly include <eh.h> in every test, that includes module_tail.cpp.

Another solution:

{{{
Index: module_tail.cpp
===================================================================
--- module_tail.cpp	(revision 49830)
+++ module_tail.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 # endif
 
 # ifdef _MSC_VER
+#  define type_info ::type_info
 #  include <eh.h> // for _set_se_translator()
+#  undef type_info
 #  pragma warning(push)
 #  pragma warning(disable:4297)
 #  pragma warning(disable:4535)
}}}
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